Conformal cooling (CC) channels are a series of cooling channels that are equidistant from
the mold cavity surfaces. CC systems show great promise to substitute conventional straight …

Products with functional fluid channels can transfer mass or energy and have been widely
used in various fields, including aerospace, robotic, and biomedical applications. The …

Additive manufacturing (AM) techniques such as selective laser melting (SLM) can enable
the construction of injection moulding (IM) tools with conformal cooling channels that …

Conformal cooling channels (CCCs) are employed to improve the cooling rate due to the
equal distance from the mold surface. CCCs play a key role in mold injection productivity by …

Additive manufacturing is a topic of considerable ongoing interest, with forecasts predicting it
to have major impact on industry in the future. This paper focusses on the current status and …

Additive manufacturing (AM) offers high-freedom in the design and processing of
components with complex internal structures. In this work, a new injection mold with the self …

The paper reports an experimental study of die-casting dies with conformal cooling
fabricated by direct-metal additive techniques. The main objective is to compare the benefits …

In the present study, a topology optimization method of thermal-fluid-structural problems is
researched to design the three-dimensional heat sink with load-carrying capability. The …

The recent developments in the additive manufacturing make easier and affordable the
fabrication of conformal cooling channels (CCCs) compared with the traditional machining …

Firstly, this work investigates a new design of a conformal cooling channel for injection
molding tools containing serial and parallel circuits. Secondly, a hybrid-manufacturing …